Music Advent 2021 - Day 6 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Today we're listening to It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by the Victor Oratorio Chorus, recorded in 1914, and played on a Victrola the ninth with a bamboo stylus.
In the early days of Phonographs it was not uncommon for the labels to have their own in-house chorus, instrumental bands, and orchestras, and this was one of those cases where the musicians themselves were banded together under a generic name. This particular chorus ultimately recorded three records - six songs in total - all of which were religious in nature.
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It's kind of cool listening to the voices recorded over a hundred years ago.
It really is. It's rather haunting, in a way, to think that these people are long gone, and all that's left are these voices on fragile shellac discs that could be lost forever should the record be broken.
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